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Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization

Lil bub's big fund exists to advocate for special needs companion animals through education, outreach and grant-making

$116k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$71k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$257k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
AnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$71k50%
FY20236$67k33%
FY20227$69k86%
FY20218$95kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$276kEnvironment$14kHealth$14k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Binxs Home for Black Cats Co$56,00736%
Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity Inc$32,50021%
My Dog Is My Home Inc$23,02328%
Four Winds Connections$20,500118%
Feral Change Dba Full Circle Cats$18,26026%
Misfit Felines Inc$18,10027%
Community Cat Inc$15,800211%
Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated$13,50011%
No Bully$13,500112%
Milos Sanctuary Inc$13,50012%
Creative Visions Foundation$11,76010%
Waggle Foundation Inc$11,76011%
Greater Good Charities$11,76010%
City of Bloomington$10,0001n/a
Stray Cat Blues Inc$8,00012%
Monroe County Humane Association$7,70011%
Little Black Dog Rescue Group$7,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBinxs Home for Black Cats Co: $56,007 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCompanions and Animals for Reform and Equity Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMy Dog Is My Home Inc: $23,023 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetFour Winds Connections: $20,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetFeral Change Dba Full Circle Cats: $18,260 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMisfit Felines Inc: $18,100 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCommunity Cat Inc: $15,800 over 2y, 11% of budgetSycamore Land Trust Incorporated: $13,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNo Bully: $13,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetMilos Sanctuary Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCreative Visions Foundation: $11,760 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaggle Foundation Inc: $11,760 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGreater Good Charities: $11,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStray Cat Blues Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMonroe County Humane Association: $7,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's FundCA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization?

Find your warmest path to Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization

How much does Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization give?
Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization reported 4 itemized grants totaling $71,300, out of $116,410 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (91%), Environment (4%), Health (4%).
Who are Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Binxs Home for Black Cats Co ($56k), Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity Inc ($33k), My Dog Is My Home Inc ($23k).
Does Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization based?
Lil Bubs Animal Welfare Organization is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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